Pierre LOUŸS. 5 L.A.S. "Pierre" or "P" and 8 L.A. (minutes), 1910, to his brother Georges Louis; 31 pages in-8, 2 addresses, 7 on Grand Hôtel de Tamaris letterhead. Correspondence largely unpublished, particularly during Louÿs's stays at Tamaris. - Late March? Anger from Polaire, to whom Louÿs refused to play La Femme et le Pantin: "she warned me that if she received this letter, she would murder me with a revolver"... - [April]. On a project to reduce the price of stamps (with press clipping) between France and England.... - Wednesday [June 29]. On his health: "It's my bronchial tubes, always my bronchial tubes that exhaust me. I'd have to make a muscular effort to breathe 30 times a minute or 40,000 times a day. I just can't do it. It's exhausting"... - Wednesday [July 6]. "I'm no longer in the acute state of the two worst days of last week when I couldn't even hold a pen but from yesterday to today it's increasing again"... - [July-August]. About a quatrain by Jean Moréas, and Vigny's La Maison du Berger, "a summit of our French language"... - Thursday evening [August 25]. Visit to Tamaris by his sister Lucie and brother-in-law Edmond Chardon. - August]. Dinner with André Lebey; electoral maneuvers in Lozère... - [September 1]. Fury at seeing the announcement of the Sedan Festival in a newspaper (clipping): "If I were less ill, and capable of sustaining a polemic, what a pleasure it would be to write an article with everything I think about it". He recalls the delicacy of the Germans during his stay in Bayreuth on September 2, 1891 "Sedantag". - September? He denies the good news about his health: "Because I'm fat and I look good. That's right. I'm fat and I look good. The opposite would be far more astonishing, because the emphysematous thin and pale does not exist in nature"... - On Claude Farrère and his Petites Alliées: "We've read the Petites Alliées. We know that Toulon is a city of pleasure from 8 o'clock in the evening. You can guess that I spend my evenings and nights there; that I lead a life of wild debauchery; that I'm the only one to be seen at dinner parties - as in Paris, by the way"... - November 12. "Since you left Tamaris I've had nothing but bad days and sad thoughts. That's why I write as little as possible". And he quotes a letter from Félicien Rops in 1892... His eight-month stay at the Tamaris hotel may seem extravagant: "I stayed at home for two and a half years because I didn't want to leave Paris without paying my term, and I've been here for eight months because I don't want to leave the hotel without settling my debt". Finally, he talks about the play La Femme et le Pantin, adapted with Pierre Frondaie, which has begun rehearsals at the Théâtre Antoine, despite Polaire's threats... - He complains about mosquitoes: "Annoyance and itching, that's all. But this mosquito-hunting that wakes us up for an hour or two every night, at the hour of our first sleep, I think it will end up being a factor in both our tiredness"... - He doesn't suffer from neurasthenia: "I can't and I don't want to live from my pen. [...] I don't want to turn my prose into money, it disgusts me"... He needs "material and extra-literary support", to cope with his debts... 7 autograph notes or minutes of letters (8 p. in-8) are enclosed: his budget and debts, philologists, a lunch at Porte Maillot, the climate in Algiers; politics: articles by Tardieu, Fachoda and the deserter affair, the Moroccan question, heads of state...